The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise

Theophilus. I am abashed of the great ignorance of such interpreters of the scripture. For first, in the place of the acts, it is not in the Greek copies the sorrows of hell, and it was not so written of S. Luke. For he hath said, the sorrows of death, and not of hell: although that in your common translation it is written as thou sayest. But although it were so, all should come to one end. For the text doth plainly declare, that Saint Peter speaketh in that Sermon of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that he himself expoundeth hell, for the tribulations, extreme sorrows, the death, the pit, the sepulchre, the low places, and the estate and condition of the dead, from which Jesus Christ is raised. He maketh there no mention of the Limb, of Purgatory, nor of the gehenne or hell fire. That same solution sufficeth for all the other places by thee alleged. For that is very common in the Scripture, to take hell in that signification, as it appeareth by those places the which thou bast put forth. For how many times saith the Prophet in those same places? The sighings of the dead have environed me. I have called upon thee in my trouble. I have ¹cried unto thee and thou hast healed me. Thou hast delivered me from those that go down into the pit. He meaneth none other thing by those words, but that he setteth forth and declareth that hell from which he was delivered. Wherefore I am greatly ashamed, both of Eccius and of Cochleus, for that they were not ashamed, to allege such places for to maintain their Purgatory.

Theophilus. I am abashed of ye great ignorance of such interpreters of the scripture. For first, in ye place of the acts, it is not in ye Gréeke copies the sorrowes of hel, and it was not so written of S. Luke. For he hath sayd, the sorrowes of death, and not of hell: although that in your common translation it is written as thou sayest. But although it were so, all shoulde come to one ende. For the text doth plainely declare, that Saint Peter speaketh in that Sermon of the resurrection of Iesus Christ, and that hée himselfe expoundeth hell, for the tribulations, extreme sorrowes, the death, the pit, the sepulchre, the low places, and the estate and condition of the dead, from which Iesus Christ is raised. He maketh there no mencion of the Limbe, of Purgatory, nor of the gehenne or hell fire. That same solution sufficeth for all the other places by thée alledged. For that is very common in the Scripture, to take hell in that signification, as it appeareth by those places the which thou bast put foorth. For how many times saith the Prophet in those same places? The sighings of the dead haue enuironed me. I haue called vpō thée in my trouble. I haue